Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-11-11
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

There is no paddock on the door to
Heaven.
Princeton $ entering class is about
one hundred and forty.
There are sixty-cight tribes of In.
dians in our country without Christian
missionaries.
--lsaac's closet was ficld David s
was his bcd-chambcr; our Lords was a
mountain; Peters was q house-top.-
ChrySosiom. Where is thy closotP
AS it is easier to run down hill
than to hold back, so is it often easier
to float with the tide than TO guard
n conviction. - Pomcroy'S Advance
Thought
The Austrian Government has de-
cidcd that American missionaries have
no right to conduct worship in halls oil
chapels, but are strictly limited to
"house-worship"
Prof. George II. Palmer, of Har-
ward College, said at the last commence
mcnt, that the father who gave his son
more than 81, year at Harvard
was doing the young man an injury.
"A Kentucky farmer recently with
drew his child from the public school
because of the inlidel doctrines which
was there taught He would not have
world is round.
One of the recent graduates of the
Woman's Medical College in New York
was Chinese girl, Kin Yamei. She
stood Mt the head of her class, and is q
thorough scholar, able TO read and
write in five languages.
Lady Burdett Coutts has estab-
lishcd in West Cork an industrial fish
ing-school, where the Irish boys learn
the most approved modes of fishing,
besides carpentry, bodybuilding, net
making and iish-curing.
In Greece the government permits
the free distribution of Scriptures, and
protects the colporteurs. The Gospels
in the original (old) Greek are used as
a areading book in the higher classes OF
seminary school.-Public Opinion.
The "old fence" at Yale College
on which successive generations of
collcgians have sat, sung and smoked,
is to be taken down, one condition of
the gift of 1925, 600 for the new build
ing being that it stand on the corner
now occupied by the fence.
The Reformed Church in Hungary
has 1880 regular organized congrega-
tons, with 1,909 pastors. Its schools
contain 202, S9S pupils, with 2,27s
teachers. Its theological colleges are
attended by 800 students. In addition,
services OH behalf of scattered Protest
ants are occasionally held in some
1851 places. Indianapolis Journal.
Said Sam Small, at Worcester,
Mass, the other day: "Since last
summer have been very ill, and very
near unto death. During my illness
read the book of job very frequently,
and gained much comfort and good
from it, leading to n deeper and more
abundant blessing than l had ever
known before. l recommend it as the
very bulwark of God against infidelity,
skcpticism, and science, falsely so
called"
From the last annual report of the
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis-
sions it appears that there are thirty
nine churches in the denomination
which contributed upwards of $4,000
last year to Foreign Missions, eight
them in New York City. OF the entire
three gave over $4,000, the
Fifth Avenue church. DR.. John Halls,
leading of with S2S,000; three gave
more than $1,000, and two over So, 900.
1t is noticeable that the church which
stands second in the list Of large givers
is at the Northwest Central in st.
Paul. --Jnited PRESBYTERIAN.